> My colleagues and I are currently faced with the question:
>
> "If the app uses cookies, what happens if the user is behind a
> corporate firewall that blocks cookies?".
>
> We know about using URL variables as an alternative, but the
> question we'd really like answered is "To what extent, generally
> speaking, do sysadmin's chose to block cookies at the firewall level?"
>
> I'd be real grateful if anyone could point me in the direction of
> any useful stat's or URLs.
We do a security exhibition website and quite a few of the website visitors
are behind firewalls that stop cookies, javascript and java
This basically means that there's no way of using the cookies unless you
pass the info on the URL of every hyperlink (virtually impossible)
It's usually the bigger coporate companies (I believe IBM stop cookies) and
the more security paranoid companies that tend to do this...
The only way to check is to set a temporary cookie, change page and then
check for it's existance
Philip Arnold
Director
Certified ColdFusion Developer
ASP Multimedia Limited
T: +44 (0)20 8680 1133
"Websites for the real world"
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